The re-election of Donald Trump for another term in the United States signalled that the pushback against climate action would only intensify. All this came in a year that broke the record for the ...

Global deforestation remains a pressing concern, but in Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest, deforestation rates remain below their peak from 8–10 years ago, despite chall ...

Scientists warn that the planet could be warming even faster than predicted and that last year's record-breaking heat showed ...

This year will be one of the hottest ever. It'll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently ...

The Amazon is perilously close to an ecological tipping point. According to a February paper in Nature, “by 2050, 10% to 47 percent of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances ...

Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe ...

In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires since 2005. And those fires contributed to ...